The Heartland Institute

The Arkansas legislature rejected a proposed renewable power mandate when House Bill 1390, the Arkansas Distributed Generation Act, failed to make it out of a joint committee on energy on April 3. With former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director James Woolsey and former Colorado Gov. Mark Ritter scheduled to testify in ...

An exhaustive study by the United States Geological Survey has uncovered no groundwater contamination from natural-gas drilling in the energy-rich Fayetteville Shale in Arkansas. No Significant Effects Found The United States Geological Survey (USGS) report, Shallow Groundwater Quality and Geochemistry in the Fayetteville Shale Gas ...

Problem HB 1390, the Arkansas Distributed Generation Act, requires utilities to buy electricity from renewable energy sources at fixed above-market rates set by the Arkansas Public Service Commission or another regulatory authority and then socializes the higher costs among all ratepayers. According to the most recent data from the ...

The U.S. Geological Survey has published the results of a study regarding water quality in Arkansas near natural gas fracking sites. The USGS analyzed water samples from 127 wells near fracking sites and found no evidence of fracking pollution. While anti-energy activists launch unfounded, irresponsible allegations that natural ...

An exhaustive study by the United States Geological Survey uncovered no groundwater contamination from natural-gas drilling in the energy-rich Fayetteville Shale in Arkansas. ...

A bipartisan group of seven governors petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to waive its ethanol fuel mandate until corn prices recede. Rising Prices Hurt States The governors of Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Texas petitioned EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to issue the waiver ...

Two years after spending $550,000 to install solar panels on a government building, Arkansas Energy Office staffers finally activated the panels, but state legislators say taxpayers are getting fleeced in the deal. Arkansas state officials in 2010 spent $552,251 in federal “green” stimulus money to purchase and install solar panels ...

Yesterday, at the Republican National Convention, former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice gave a superb speech covering many important issues. One issue she touched on that regrettably hasn’t been talked about enough this campaign season is education reform. For the United States to have sustained economic prosperity ...

State Rep. Kathy Webb is seeking to have Arkansas declare a state of emergency due to people failing to scrape grease from their dishes or trap the grease in special grease collectors before washing the dishes in dishwashers or the kitchen sink. Webb has submitted Interim Study Proposal 2011-201, an act “to declare an emergency ...

Hydraulic fracturing has enabled profitable extraction of oil and gas in diverse areas of the country. As a result, many states sitting atop the country’s shale formations are reconsidering the way they tax these resources, to fill budget holes. Many of these debates are occurring in states with unconventional deposits and where ...

The recent discovery of vast deposits of oil and natural gas trapped in shale rock formations has revolutionized our nation’s short-term, mid-term, and long-term energy outlook. For example, proven natural gas reserves in the United States rose by 40 percent between 2004 and 2009. At the same time, new technological advancements ...

After testing 71 water wells near hydraulic fracturing natural gas production sites, the U.S. Geological Survey reports no signs of any water pollution. The tests were conducted in Van Buren County, Arkansas after local residents expressed fears hydraulic fracturing— known as fracking—might be polluting local water resources. Seventy ...